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Proximity Sensor Market in North America Being Won by
European Vendors

Natick, Massachusetts
– September 12, 2007 – The North American market for proximity sensors –
including capacitive, inductive, magnetic, magnetic actuated, photoelectric and
ultrasonic products – totaled $718.8 million in 2006 (exclusive of another $38.4
million in photointerrupter sensors), according to a new market study by Venture
Development Corporation.

The market for these
products has increased at a moderate single-digit average annual growth rate
over the last 15 years. However, during the same period (and particularly during
the past three years), two European vendors, Hans Turck GmbH & Co. KG, and IFM
Electronics GmbH – through their US subsidiaries Turck, Inc. and IFM Efector,
Inc. – have each achieved approximately double the annual market growth rate,
and are now the two leading suppliers in the market.

Other leading suppliers in the market with shares
above 5.5% in 2006 included:

Banner Engineering

Eldec

Omron Electronics

Pepperl+Fuchs

Rockwell Automation

By far the largest product segments of the proximity
sensor market are inductive and photoelectric sensors. Inductive
products are the principal proximity sensors for both Turck and IFM, and
these have accounted for most of the overall market gains for both
firms.

TURCK Inc., the North
American arm of privately owned Hans Turck GmbH & Co. KG headquartered in
Mulheim in Germany, has operated in the U.S. since 1971. Their proximity sensors
are produced in the US, Germany, Switzerland and China, as well as in their
newest manufacturing facility built in Saltillo, Mexico in 2004.

IFM Efector, based in
Exton, PA, is a subsidiary of privately owned IFM Electronic GmbH, which was
founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Essen, Germany. Nearly all of IFM
Efector’s proximity and photoelectric sensors are manufactured by their parent
company in Germany.

VDC’s study forecasts
a North American market growth rate of 4.3% for these proximity sensors over the
next 5 years.

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North American Position Sensor Market: Eighth Edition, contact:

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